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Show I Intermountain News -Briefly told for Busy Readers BAND MKET LOOMS FLOOD SAFEGUARDS , GIFT OF API'LFS OFFFK SCRIP FLAN SONS OF UTAH I'lONr EKS PRICE rT Twenty-three Utah and Colorado bands have entered the third annual intermountain band tournament to be held here April 13, 1-1, and 13. IDAHO FALLS, IDA.-A liberal supply of storage water in the Jackson lake reservoir may result in an unusually high water condition condi-tion In the river, particularly if the run-off from the upper watersheds is rapid and preparations to prevent pre-vent possible flood damages have been made here. SALT LAKE CITY, FT. F. Crowton, a resident of this city, celebrated his one hundredth birthday birth-day anniversary by splitting firewood. fire-wood. SALT LAKE CITY, FT. A so ciety known as the Sons of Utah Pioneers has been organized and will perfect a statewide organization, organiza-tion, according to announced plans. TOOELE, FT. B. F. Bauer of Salt Lake, owner of the famous Bauer apple orchard, four miles south of here, has donated seven hundred bushels of apples from hi; storehouse for the needy of this section. The Tooele county commis sion will handle the distribution ol the fruit. POCATELLO, IDA. W. P. Hav enor, county surveyor, reports tha' most of the county roads stood uj well during the past winter, will the exception of a few that wen cut up by heavy travel when th snow first melted. HYRUJI-, UT. Through the co operation of the Hyrum Lions clul and Ilyrnm city, a summer camping camp-ing and recreational park will br constructed in Blacksmith Fori; canyon. PROVO, UT. Provided busines: men of Provo will back scrip, Pro-vo Pro-vo City may undertake three projects pro-jects during the coming summer which will provide considerable work for the city's unemployed. AMERICAN FORK, FT. The Alpine school district is confronted with the necessity of closing the 1932-33 school year at the end of the eight-month period unless it is possible to work out some means of carrying on the term. BOISE, IDA. The order suspending sus-pending federal aid for road construction con-struction leaves Idaho with one bridge in the air without approaches approach-es and one pair of approaches without a bridge, and three highway high-way jobs ready for bidders and no authority to grant them contracts JEROME, IDA A few 193f crops on the North Side project of Jerome county still are unharvest-ed. unharvest-ed. Stacks of grain were left un-threshed un-threshed last fall, due to lack of money for threshing and storing, the farmers finding it more economical eco-nomical to keep it stored in the stacks than in elevators. MONROE, UT. The city of Monroe recently completed an extensive ex-tensive improvement program of the town's waterworks system, includ ing the laying of new pipe. RUPERT, IDA. Judge C. D Pliibbs, 47, pioneer of the. Minidoka project, was found dead of a bullet bul-let wound in his home here. The wound is said to have been self-inflicted. A letter to his widow told of his intentions to kill himself be cause of ill health. EPHRAIM, UT. Drives to ex terminate gophers and grasshop pers are being inaugurated here. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Lack of supervision on the part of tht federal government over the grazing has almost denuded the 25,157,000 acres of public domain of foliage, according to the secretary of the Utah Woolgrowers' association. PROVO, UT. An agreement .to turn back to the city 11 per cent of their salaries during 1933 has been made by Provo City employes. POCATELLO, IDA. Near the end of an adventurous life, Charley Sing, 9G, is spending his last days at the Bannock county poor farm, after an attempt to end his life because be-cause he disliked going there, failed. fail-ed. The old Chinese came to Poe-atello Poe-atello more than 60 years ago to aid in the construction of the first narrow-guage railroad through this section, and he then became the town's first cook. OGDEX, FT Of a total of 75G2 cattle in 'Weber county, tested for tuberculosis since last December, only 32 were reactors, it is reported. report-ed. BOISE, IDA. A half million dollars in tax anticipation notes will be sold by the state April 14, Mrs. Myrtle Enking, state treasurer, treasur-er, has announced. The sale being authorized by the hoard of examf-ners. examf-ners. Bids on the issue will he opened op-ened at the treasury office. Interest Inter-est may not exceed G per cent. The issue is to be used to finance the state pending receipt of 1032 taxes from the counties. The notes mature ma-ture during February 1934, fa months after issue. |